Allen Welsh Dulles presents the first (civilian) and historically most consequential Director of Central Intelligence, Allen Welsh Dulles, as a heroic figure, central to the victory of the World War II Allies over the forces of the Third Reich, and later containing the Soviet Threat during the early years of the Cold War. It does so by lifting large chunks of text from primarily two sources, an article from the CIA's own website, called Secret Intelligence, and a piece from CNN, called Allen Welsh Dulles: CIA Director. The effect of this method is to "ask him what kind of a guy he is". This sourcing is partially broken down in table form at Sourcing of the Wikipedia Article "Allen Welsh Dulles"
The phrase "An early foe of Hitler...." appears prominently in the article, in a whole sentence lifted from Secret Intelligence.
Was Allen Dulles a foe of Hitler, early or late? Many strong, credible references paint a very different picture.
It is no longer much of a secret that the banking firm of Brown Bros. Harriman was adjudicated and convicted in 1943 under the
[Trading With The Enemy Act], and required to divest themselves of their overseas holdings, howbeit most of their ill-gotten gains had been sequestered stateside and survived the seizure. A confirmation of what had been called "a rumour" appeared in The Guardian in 2004:
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power. The crime at issue was a massive trade in steel of various forms, explosives, shipping, gold, money laundering, and general "fix-up" for the Nazi regime for over a decade, overlapping the start of the war. Indeed, better than half of the pig iron used by the Reich was supplied by this firm, of which Prescott Sheldon Bush, grandfather of the current US president George W. Bush, was the day-to-day director of business:
"The 1942 U.S. government investigative report said that Bush's Nazi-front bank was an interlocking concern with the Vereinigte Stahlwerke (United Steel Works Corporation or German Steel Trust) led by Fritz Thyssen and his two brothers. After the war, Congressional investigators probed the Thyssen interests, Union Banking Corp. and related Nazi units. The investigation showed that the Vereinigte Stahlwerke had produced the following approximate proportions of total German national output:
50.8% of Nazi Germany's pig iron 41.4% of Nazi Germany's universal plate 36.0% of Nazi Germany's heavy plate 38.5% of Nazi Germany's galvanized sheet 45.5% of Nazi Germany's pipes and tubes 22.1% of Nazi Germany's wire 35.0% of Nazi Germany's explosives "Prescott Bush became vice president of W.A. Harriman & Co. in 1926. That same year, a friend of Harriman and Bush set up a giant new organization for their client Fritz Thyssen, prime sponsor of politician Adolf Hitler. The new German Steel Trust, Germany's largest industrial corporation, was organized in 1926 by Wall Street banker Clarence Dillon. Dillon was the old comrade of Prescott Bush's father Sam Bush from the "Merchants of Death" bureau in World War I."
The source of this quote is George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin,
Chapter 2: The Hitler Project, and his source for the table is
Elimination of German Resources for War: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Military Affairs, United States Senate, Seventy-Ninth Congress; Part 5, Testimony of [the United States] Treasury Department, July 2, 1945. P. 507: Table of Vereinigte Stahlwerke output, figures are percent of German total as of 1938; Thyssen organization including Union Banking Corporation pp. 727-31.
Allen Dulles and his brother John Foster Dulles were lawyers for Brown Bros. Harriman during this period. In a footnote to this second chapter of Tarpley we see a direct reference to Allen Dulles carrying out his duties to the firm and its Nazi clients:
Annual Report of Hamburg-Amerika, op. cit.
Baron Rudolph Schroeder, Sr. to Averell Harriman, Nov. 14, 1932. K[night] W[ooley] handwritten note and draft reply letter, Dec. 9, 1932.
In his letter, Baron Rudolph refers to the family's American affiliate, J. Henry Schroder [name anglicized], of which Allen Dulles was a director, and his brother John Foster Dulles was the principal attorney.
Baron Bruno Schroder of the British branch was adviser to Bank of England Governor Montagu Norman, and Baron Bruno's partner Frank Cyril Tiarks was Norman's co-director of the Bank of England throughout Norman's career. Kurt von Schroeder was Hjalmar Schacht's delegate to the Bank for International Settlements in Geneva, where many of the financial arrangements for the Nazi regime were made by Montagu Norman, Schacht and the Schroeders for several years of the Hitler regime right up to the outbreak of World War II.
The names in this footnote are essential to understanding the machinations of the deep and lasting rapprochement between the industrial gentry of the United States and the "Project" in Munich and Berlin, and the reader is strongly advised to read the Tarpley book, free online but Chapter 2 if nothing else.
Another source of great usefulness, as a nexus of original sources, is the book-length material free online under the title
Nazis in the attic by Randy Davis. He begins with a quote from William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937:
"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. . . .
"Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."
The clique of industrialists was the same one, the Rockefellers, the Morgans, the Du Ponts and the rest, that made a very serious attempt to muster a half-million-man army to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt and establish a Fascist regime in America, and would have done, expect they put their money on the wrong horse: Maj. Gen, Smedley Darlington Butler, USMC., the most respected and most highly decorated Marine general of all time — twice Congressional Medal of Honor. One of the finest sources on the subject is
Trading With the Enemy: An Expose of the Nazi-American Money Plot, 1933-1949 by Charles Higham. This from p. 167:
"Along with friends of the Morgan Bank and General Motors," in early 1934, writes Higham, "certain Du Pont backers financed a coup d'etat that would overthrow the President with the aid of a $3 million-funded army of terrorists . . ." The object was to force Roosevelt "to take orders from businessmen as part of a fascist government or face the alternative of imprisonment and execution . . . "
Higham reports that "Du Pont men allegedly held an urgent series of meetings with the Morgans," to choose who would lead this "bizarre conspiracy." "They finally settled on one of the most popular soldiers in America, General Smedly Butler of Pennsylvania." Butler was approached by "fascist attorney" Gerald MacGuire (an official of the American Legion), who attempted to recruit Butler into the role of an American Hitler.
"Butler was horrified," but played along with MacGuire until, a short time later, he notified the White House of the plot. Roosevelt considered having "the leaders of the houses of Morgan and Du Pont" arrested, but feared that "it would create an unthinkable national crisis in the midst of a depression and perhaps another Wall Street crash." Roosevelt decided the best way to defuse the plot was to expose it, and leaked the story to the press.
"The newspapers ran the story of the attempted coup on the front page, but generally ridiculed it as absurd and preposterous." But an investigation by the Congressional Committee on Un-American Activities - 74th Congress, first session, House of Representatives, Investigation of Nazi and other propaganda - was begun later that same year.
"It was four years," continues Higham, "before the committee dared to publish its report in a white paper that was marked for 'restricted circulation.' They were forced to admit that 'certain persons made an attempt to establish a fascist organization in this country . . . (The) committee was able to verify all the pertinent statements made by General Butler.' This admission that the entire plan was deadly in intent was not accompanied by the imprisonment of anybody. Further investigations disclosed that over a million people had been guaranteed to join the scheme and that the arms and munitions necessary would have been supplied by Remington, a Du Pont subsidiary."
Possibly the most comprehensive volume on the subject is John Loftus' and Mark Aarons'
The Secret War Against the Jews. Consider this very pertinent quote touching directly on Allen Dulles and his upper-crust clientéle:
"Before the war Standard of New Jersey had forged a synthetic oil and rubber cartel with the Nazi-controlled I.G. Farben," which "worked well until the United States joined the war in 1941. . . . Next to the Rockefellers, I.G. Farben owned the largest share of stock in Standard Oil of New Jersey. Among other things, Standard had provided Farben with its synthetic rubber patents and technical knowledge, while Farben had kept its patents to itself, under strict instructions from the Nazi government."
Evidence which [Thurman Arnold] turned over to the (Senator Harry S.)Truman Committee, which Truman would declare "treasonous," included "Standard's 1939 letter renewing its agreement, which made it clear that the Rockefellers' company was prepared to work with the Nazis whether their own government was at war with the Third Reich or not. Truman's Senate Committee on the National Defense was outraged and began to probe into the whole scandalous arrangement, much to the discomfort of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Suddenly, however, the whole matter was dropped.
"There was a reason for Rockefeller's escape: blackmail. According to the former intelligence officers we interviewed on this point, the blackmail was simple and powerful: The Dulles brothers (John Foster, later Secretary of State, and Allen, later director of the CIA) had one of their clients threaten to interrupt the U.S. oil supply during wartime."
The amount of copy that would be required to exhaust the subject of Allen Dulles's contribution to modern America is beyond the scope of one Wikipedia article. But it would be negligent to conclude, without mentioning the fact that during his tenure as DCI, the most egregious abuses occurred, including [MK-ULTRA], [the Bay of Pigs fiasco], the overthrow of [Mossadegh], which began a cascade of overthrows, the next being [Arbenz] in Guatemala for the benefit of United Fruit Company, of which both Dulles brothers were major players. The CIA has left a trail of broken countries, sacrified to the pleasure of Wall Street, and that started before Dulles came to power. But he "fostered" that culture of predation.
This piece is best finished with Smedley Butler's most famous quote, from a speech delivered in 1933:
It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.
I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
It is tragic how few Americans know Smedley Butler and his testimony.